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Sorensen Partners was Architect and Interior Designer for the first phase of design and construction for Horse Thieves Tavern in Dedham, MA, a technically complex historic rehabilitation and conversion from simple retail to restaurant use. Construction of the new restaurant at the corner of Washington and…
Sorensen Partners is Architect and OPM for the restoration and renovation of several key features in the lobby and adjacent spaces at Wellesley College’s Jewett Arts Center. The Jewett Arts Center was designed by renowned modernist Paul Rudolph, and changes to the structure adhere to…
Sorensen Partners is Architect and Interior Designer for Rowan University Campbell Library’s new University Special Collections & Archives Room, under construction in 2017. Located adjacent to the lobby on the library’s third floor, the 4,200 square-foot Special Collections Room includes a reading room, climate-controlled archival…
Sorensen Partners is designing a Maker Space / Fabrication Lab and recommending equipment for Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT), a technical college located in Boston. The centrally-located lab will be a renovation making maximum use of new signage and economical lighting, paint, and HVAC…
Sorensen Partners was Charrette Facilitator and Masterplanner for Lawrence Community Works in 2013 to assist residents of the North Common Neighborhood in Lawrence, MA in setting development goals for improving physical community amenities – including housing, public buildings, and parks. The planning process was funded…
How do researchers search for knowledge? What are their behaviors and habits, and what technologies do they use? Marie S.A. Sorensen’s upcoming article in the Journal of Library Administration proposes that three design shifts – involving more human senses; enabling comparative and simultaneous viewing; and…
Our Flagpole Area, Amphitheater, and Basketball Courts for Camp Manitou in Oakland, Maine are complete! Great work by landscape contractor William Mushero, Inc. The project scope includes the Flagpole Area, Amphitheater, and three Basketball Courts at the center of camp in view of the lakefront. This…
Seven human-size bird ‘totems’ built of Redwood, Guasivan, and stainless steel tube line a five-mile levee trail that journeys dramatically into the center of the San Francisco Bay. Depicting characteristic behaviors of bird species important to the Refuge (species were selected by naturalist staff), the totems…
East Avenue Associates, a property owner and manager, hired us to improve the appearance of their class-A commercial office building with a formal landscape design responding to the building’s classical proportions and using hearty local species. The building is located on a busy historic thoroughfare…